{"product_id":"multiversal-paperback","title":"Multiversal - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmy Catanzano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Palmer\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN USA Literary Award in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Poets Out Loud Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMultiversal\u003c\/i\u003e, the second book by Amy Catanzano proposing a theory of quantum poetics, invites readers to explore the intersections between language, nature, science, and consciousness. Multiversal takes its name from the \"multiverse,\" a science fiction concept that has become an accepted theory in physics. It suggests that reality comprises multiple dimensions in space and time. In form and content, this collection takes novel approaches to the materiality of language itself, to the spacetime of poems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Foreword by Michael Palmer: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmy Catanzano offers us a poetic vision of multiple orders and multiple forms, of a fluid time set loose from linearity and an open space that is motile and multidimensional. The work exists at once in a future-past and in a variety of temporal modes. At one moment the scale is intimate, at another infinite. She interrogates our means of observation and measurement (the telescope, the ice-core), our mappings, our cosmic calculations, our assumptions about cause and effect. In the background, \"there is a war being fought,\" though which of many wars--cultural, scientific, military--we are not told. In a time of displacement such as ours, she seems to say, in place of \"universals\" we must imagine \"multiversals,\" in place of the fixed, the metamorphic. As much as the frame may be cosmic (micro- or macro-), it is important to remember that the work serves the vital questions of the hereand-now, \"the flowering of the world,\" the corrosiveness of violence, the primacy of desire, the necessity of wonder. Multiversal represents an effort to see things as they are through an act of poetic reimagining, that is, to see variously within the folds and fields of the actual, where the physis, or life force, resides.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Catanzano (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e AMY CATANZANO's first book, \u003ci\u003eiEpiphany\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Anne Waldman's Erudite Fangs imprint. Catanzano's poetry has appeared widely in literary magazines such as \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFence\u003c\/i\u003e. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722401812543,"sku":"9780823230075","price":61.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cf5fd48d9033221d53bec96f91217837.webp?v=1765095640","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/multiversal-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}